RoboChallenge 2014
Local stage: 30th of April 2014
National stage: 1st and 2nd of November 2014
The competition reached the seventh edition this year, and gained several premieres during the two stages.
Local stage
The competition took place on 9th of May 2014, in the hallway of the newest Library of Polytechnic University of Bucharest and it also introduced a new challenge- Maze. Among the five well known challenges, Mega Sumo, Mini Sumo, Micro Sumo, Football and Line Follower Enhanced, the Maze challenge provided entertainment and fully tested the robots’ abilities.
What is Maze?
The contestants may build a robot able to manage by itself a maze, and for the competition to be more difficult, the two robots will enter simultaneously in the maze, and the first one to solve it will be declared winner. The dimensions must be within 10x10 cm and they must have a Start/Stop module, for an easier management from the referee.
71 one teams signed in for the local phase: 6 teams for Mega Sumo, 15 for Mini Sumo, 8 for Micro Sumo, 7 for Maze, 24 in Line Follower Enhanced, 4 in Football and 7 for the Project Showcase. These teams competed with 92 robots in all 7 challenges of the competition.
After many rounds, lots of emotions and tension, the winners were as follows:
Mega Sumo
1. Flex – robot Wolf
2. Bullet – robot Bullet
3. Flex – robot Flex V1
Mini Sumo
1. Flex – robot Mo
2. Flex – Robot Mini Flex
3. Blackbox – robot Blackbox
Micro Sumo
1. Sylar – robot Sylar
2. Sylar – robot Peter P.
3. Taz – robot Taz
Fotbal
1. IMM – robot Iron foot
2. Flex – robot Mad Robot
3. Atom – robot Real Steel
Maze
1. HBFB4
2. Mitzy
3. Mistery
Line follower Enhanced
1. HBFS3
2.Trololo
3. N/A
The prizes were offered by our partners: Infineon, Microchip, Bitdefender, IBM, Tymbark, 6th District City Hall. The trophies and medals were offered by DDB Design, and the streaming by Cable Systems and Giurgiu TV.
National phase
On the 1st and 2nd of November 2014, another first was marked at the National Stage of Robochallenge Romania. For the first time in the competition’s history we had international participation, namely 2 teams from Mexico, which also won prizes in the Mini Sumo Competition.
During the two days of competition, 81 teams battled in the 6 challenges and the Project Showcase. There were 182 robots in the competition, which offered a great show at the three Sumo Challenges (Mega Sumo, Mini Sumo and Micro Sumo), at Football, Maze, Line Follower Enhanced and Project Showcase. The robots’ abilities and the teams’ creativity were tested by the 7 challenges.
Even if most of the teams faced mechanical and/ or coding issues, they managed to compete with the robots that won several prizes, making the effort worth.
At the end of the competition, the winners received prizes offered by our sponsors: de: Infineon, Microchip, Bitdefender, JTI, Brainspotting, Heineken, LaserMaxx and the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology. The trophies and medals were offered by Atelier 13 and the promotional items by Lexivo promotional, the streaming by Cable Systems and Giurgiu TV.
The winners of the edition are:
Mega Sumo
1st place - Flex – robot Wolf
Teodor Roșca, Ovidiu Marius Alexandru
2nd place - Bullet – robot Bullet
Mihai Oltean, Horia Neamțu, Alexandru Pușcaș, Claudiu Avram, Cristian Husar
3rd place - Evo Team – robot Bonfire
Octavian Alexandru, Ana-Maria Radu, Răzvan Cristescu, Alexandru Rogozan
Mention - Rugina – robot Rugina
Bogdan Pavel Deac, Ovidiu Ioan Maier, Horațiu Răzvan Maier, Mihai Moldovan
Mini Sumo
1st place - Sheeps Team – robot Nahual - Mexic
Carlos Adrian Lugo Meneses, Augustin Caceres Quiroz, Sergio Abraham Reyna Peruzquia, Alejandro Gamundi, Benjamin De La Cruz Lopez, Bryan Ramirez Bacilio
2nd place - Prodigy – robot Rujina
Eduard Mihok, Cristian Boldog
3rd place - Sheeps Team – robot Kimbo - Mexic
Carlos Adrian Lugo Meneses, Augustin Caceres Quiroz, Sergio Abraham Reyna Peruzquia, Alejandro Gamundi, Benjamin De La Cruz Lopez, Bryan Ramirez Bacilio
Mention - BlackBox – robot BlackBox Pro
Flavius Tîrnăcop, Irina Gosu, Alexandru Alistar, Alexandru Augurencei
Micro Sumo
1st place - The One – robot Sylar
Țibuleac Cătălin-Ciprian
2nd place - Wonderbots – robot RoboWarrior 2
Deaconu Ioan, Andrei Marius Lucian, Andrei Musat
3rd place - Wonderbots – robot RoboWarrior 1
Deaconu Ioan, Andrei Marius Lucian, Andrei Mușat
Mentiune - RObotiqueFF – robot Mosquitto
Ionuț Drăghici
Line Follower Enhanced
1st place - Prodigy – robot Prodigy
Eduard Mihok, Cristian Boldog
2nd place - HBFS – robot HBFS-L2
Mihai Alexandru Crăciunescu, Andrei Duluță, Cristian Dobre, Maria Cîrciumaru, Cătălina Radu
3rd place - HBFS – robot HBFS-L4
Mihai Alexandru Crăciunescu, Andrei Duluță, Cristian Dobre, Maria Cîrciumaru, Cătălina Radu
Mention - N/A – robot N/A
Eduard Voiculescu
Maze
1st place - HBFS – robot HBFS-M2
Mihai Alexandru Crăciunescu, Andrei Duluță, Cristian Dobre, Maria Cîrciumaru, Cătălina Radu
2nd place - RobotiqueFF – robot Vye Brator
Vlad Urziceanu, Alexandru Suciu
3rd place - TikTok RobotiqueFF – robot TIK TOK
Turica Cătălin Vasile, Turica Liviu, Scrieciu Marius
Mention - DAF – robot CRONOS
Florina Ciorîcă, Daniela-Andreea Tudor, Adina-Elena Lupu, Daniel-Claudiu Sărățeanu
Football
1st place - Wonderbots – robot IronFoot
Deaconu Ioan, Andrei Marius Lucian, Andrei Mușat
2nd place - Flex – robot MadRobot
Adelina Bratu, Tiberiu Ghiță, Mariu Andrei Gîbu
3rd place - EightCPlus – robot Goller
Ahmet Hamza Aydin, Călin Clichici
Mention - Sandwich Demander – robot Sandwich Demander
Yasin Ibrahim, Andrei Cristian Barbu
Project Showcase
1st place - HBFS
Mihai Alexandru Crăciunescu, Andrei Duluță, Cristian Dobre, Maria Cîrciumaru, Cătălina Radu
2nd place - Vlad – proiect Fahrenheit
Vlad Niculescu
3rd place - RoboSZMK – proiect LifeBot
Rudolf Krecht
